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"Undergraduate probability book that assumes one-semester of calculus. One key is the emphasis on "stories" for the probability distributions (which I mean in both an intuitive and technical sense): there are a dozen or so key distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson, etc.) that are incredibly widely-used in statistics, but a lot of books just write down formulas for them without explaining clearly why these particular distributions are so important, or how they are all connected. Each of these distributions has a "story" (a natural application where it arises), and thinking about stories makes the distributions easier to remember, understand, and work with"--
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Introduction to Probability, Jessica Hwang, Joseph K. Blitzstein
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Introduction to Probability
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jessica Hwang, Joseph K. Blitzstein
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1138369918
- ISBN13
- 9781138369917
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Textbooks, Technology & Engineering, References & Manuals, Philosophy, Science, Technology, Math Textbooks
- Rating
- 4.6 out of 5
- Description
- "Undergraduate probability book that assumes one-semester of calculus. One key is the emphasis on "stories" for the probability distributions (which I mean in both an intuitive and technical sense): there are a dozen or so key distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson, etc.) that are incredibly widely-used in statistics, but a lot of books just write down formulas for them without explaining clearly why these particular distributions are so important, or how they are all connected. Each of these distributions has a "story" (a natural application where it arises), and thinking about stories makes the distributions easier to remember, understand, and work with"--